Jackie Collins

Jacqueline Jill Collins was born on Oct. 4, 1937 in London, England to Joe Collins, a theater agent, and Elsa Collins, a former dancer. She had an older sister, Joan, who would later shoot to fame as Alexis Carrington on the long-running series "Dynasty" (ABC, 1981-89), and a younger brother, Bill. Collins began writing when she was a teenager, copying dirty limericks into her diary and charging her classmates to read them. Unlike her more reserved older sister, Collins was a wild child who broke the rules at a young age - she smoked marijuana, wore thick makeup and high heels, and snuck out at night to meet men at nightclubs. She was expelled from school at 15 for truancy and was sent to li... Continue Bio >>